gitsnips/README.md

gitsnips

Backup GitLab snippets to combined repo using git subtrees

Required

• GitLab personal API token with read_api privilege
• Automated git project for storing snippets
• curl, git, jq, find, mktemp

Usage

1. Create GitLab API token with read_api access (private snippets)

2. Create a new private gitlab project, then clone and configure

    git clone git@gitlab.com:username/snippets.git
    cd snippets
    git config user.name "username"
    git config user.email "username@email.com"
   

3. If using multiple GitLab accounts/SSH keys:

    git config core.sshCommand "ssh -i ~/.ssh/username -F /dev/null"
   

4. Specify the token and project directory with -t ... -d ...

    ./gitsnips.sh -t ABCDEF1234 -d ../snippets/ -p
   

5. Review the above changes and git push the results when ready

SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT